Re: Discussing typographical standards

[Urs Liska]

Am 26.03.2014 16:32, schrieb Simon Albrecht:
> But in situations where one can afford it: why not allow oneself some
> luxury there ;-) At least I sometimes do. (bearing also in mind that
> paper costs are not a real argument nowadays, once you look at it…)

I fully agree with you, but OTOH I find A4 paper somewhat too small for 
providing nice margins (in general). For that you often have to use 
smaller staff sizes - which isn't a bad thing in itself but has the risk 
of the score looking somewhat less impressive than possible.

I recently made a style sheet mimicking a certain type of Universal 
Edition scores. They use a paper that is only a little bit larger than 
A4 (paper is 23.2x30.4cm, margins are 1.8/2.2 cm, top/bottom 1.6/1.7cm.
And with that I could simply use LilyPond's default font/staff-size 
settings, and it looks wonderful.

Best
Urs